There should be no welcome in the Dáil for Israel’s main arms dealer
Last week members of the Oireachtas Committee for Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight received a request to use the Dáil Chamber on Friday 23rd August for a meeting of members of the United States Congress and other US officials.
Deputy Bríd Smith said “As a member of the Oireachtas Committee for Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight I have formally objected to the Dáil being used for this purpose. People Before Profit are not in agreement with allowing the use of the Dáil Chamber for Members of the United States Congress and State Legislators. In fact, we vehemently oppose the use of the Dáil Chamber or any area of the Oireachtas by the US political establishment as it continues to fund genocide in Palestine by arming the Israeli war machine.
On Monday Kamala Harris’s National Security Adviser said that Vice President Harris’s support for Israel is “ironclad”. Anyone under the illusion that Kamala Harris will change anything should now know better. The White House personnel may change but violent US foreign policy remains the same. The Israeli state’s genocide would soon grind to a halt if the US stopped arming it, so there should be no welcome in the Dáil for Israel’s main arms dealer”.